Contents	7
	Preface	8
	Acknowledgements	10
	1 Postmodernism, Liberal Ironism, and Contemporary Storytelling	12
	2 Social Realism in the Postmodern Age	20
	3 “Middle Class Realism” and the Acceptance of the Reader	25
	4 Morality and Solidarity in the Ironic Novel	32
	5 “Evil is the Movement toward Void”: Self-Absorption, Play, and the Ambiguous Gift of Genre in the Early Novels of Don DeLillo	38
	6 “Entropy and Efflorescence”: To and From the Zero in the Early Novels of Paul Auster	68
	7 “Nobody Would Believe a Word”: Sincerity amid Terror in the Early Novels of Tim O’Brien	89
	8 “Fathers Gift of Mythopoesis and Love”: Conflicted Voices in the Early Charles Johnson	108
	9 “The Days of Being a Shadow Are Over”: The Ironic Narrative in Practice	122
	10 “Others First”: Approaching Solidarity	137
	Afterword “Create the Counternarrative”: Writings in a New Century	155
	Bibliography	193
	Index	204
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